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Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by MattGaiser »

FormerBandmate wrote: post #36

They are desperately trying to be TikTok. It will not work and has no chance of working. Look at their hilariously terrible acquisition of Dubsmash for $50 million (they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers when they had 200 million users at their peak and touted having 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release. Every post is people saying the Reddit app sucks and asking where Dubsmash went)

> they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers.

That definitely belongs in a textbook on absurd corporate decisions.

I thought you must have been exaggerating somewhere, but nope, that is exactly how it went.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubsmash

https://old.reddit.com/r/dubsmash/

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by marcosdumay »

greesil wrote: post #31

Well there goes the last social site I was engaged with, other than this one. I just don't get it when a business decides to declare war in its users. I'll miss the 3D printing subreddit, oh well.

Since the redesign they shifted their focus on images, and well, I don't have any hobby best communicated by images. So, lately I have been only looking at the joke subs.

I unsubscribed from the 3D printing sub a while ago, because the good stuff didn't get upvotes, because they were not images, so nothing good would make into my home page.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by andersrs »

I'm the mod of a small subreddit [1] with a few thousand members. Today I've spun up a Discord server [2]. Personally I've had a guts full of the banners trying to force the Reddit mobile app down my throat. It sucks it's a shitty app. Just no. I don't like how Discord is a walled garden however it seems like Reddit too is also becoming a closed platform. I might as well go for the company that can actually build a great experience and Discord is miles ahead with their UX and people seem to love it.

[1] r/Redactle - https://redactle.net puzzle game | [2] https://discord.gg/VKnrnXev

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by zuppy »

comte7092 wrote: post #30
japhyr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to know the conversion rate that resulted from that test, it must have been absolutely abysmal.

I’ve already been ignoring the extremely annoying spammy pop ups telling me to download the app for years. I’m not downloading the app. I am just not doing it. Period.

if you happen to be using safari on ios, someone just created an extension for cleaning up the mobile web version: https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by midoridensha »

wanderingstan wrote: post #49
baby wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I prefer websites and the option to open tabs for later browsing The number of times I lost a post because when I switched app or didn’t use my phone for a while reddit would just reset to the home page… I think they really didn’t realize how much the shitty UX would enrage people against them.

This is what keeps me on old.reddit. The new web version and the app are always losing my place.

They need to shut that down. Even better, they should make a desktop app and force users to use that instead of the website.

If they really believe in their forced-app strategy, they should bet the farm on it, not just on mobile, but everywhere.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by 29083011397778 »

andersrs wrote: post #63

I'm the mod of a small subreddit [1] with a few thousand members. Today I've spun up a Discord server [2]. Personally I've had a guts full of the banners trying to force the Reddit mobile app down my throat. It sucks it's a shitty app. Just no. I don't like how Discord is a walled garden however it seems like Reddit too is also becoming a closed platform. I might as well go for the company that can actually build a g…

Good call - I'm sure the next private company won't eventually treat their users like garbage.

Re: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

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Post by EMIRELADERO »

hayst4ck wrote: post #47

I have been in this A/B test group and I have been in the A/B test group that tries to show a TikTok style feed (one that gets new content based on the content you spent time observing) rather than a normalized upvote based one. Without old.reddit.com, I would have not used reddit. I think it is important to never comply with these forced changes. I think there is a larger discussion on professional ethics to be had.…

While I do not agree with the trend, especially how it's currently going, I think this is how Reddit leadership (and many other C-level/PM people of other brands like YouTube) view it: the site isn't a place to choose what to see, it's a consume consume consume kind of thing.

Similar to YouTube removing granularity levels for filtering videos on channels, it's not a content library. It's not even a video rental store. It's a movie theater. Sit down, watch what's on today, move on.

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